Surveillance & Society | the international journal of surveillance studies
Vol 8, No 1 | Open Issue

The first issue of our eighth volume is out now, with four particularly provocative pieces from Irus Braverman on automated public toilets, Samuel Nunn on the biases of police wiretap interpretation, Anthony Bolton Newkirk on fusion centres, and Stuart Waiton on the (anti-)politics of CCTV. Plus opinion and reviews.

Digitally mediated surveillance (DMS) is an increasingly prevalent, but still largely invisible, aspect of daily life. As we work, play and negotiate public and private spaces, on-line and off, we produce a growing stream of personal digital data of interest to unseen others. CCTV cameras hosted by private and public actors survey and record our movements in public space, as well as in the workplace. Corporate interests track our behaviour as we navigate both social and transactional cyberspaces, data mining our digital doubles and packaging users as commodities for sale to the highest bidder. Governments continue to collect personal information on-line with unclear guidelines for retention and use, while law enforcement increasingly use internet technology to monitor not only criminals but activists and political dissidents as well, with worrisome implications for democracy.

This international workshop brings together researchers, advocates, activists and artists working on the many aspects of cyber-surveillance, particularly as it pervades and mediates social life. This workshop will appeal to those interested in the surveillance aspects of topics such as the following, especially as they raise broader themes and issues that characterize the cyber-surveillance terrain more widely:

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Chamada de Trabalhos “Vigilância na América Latina”
Convocatoria para trabajos “Vigilancia en América Latina”

[English - Portuguese and Spanish follow]

Call for papers to researchers with specific interest in Latin America, and authors/participants of the events “Surveillance in Latin America” that took place in Curitiba (Brazil) and Toluca (Mexico), in 2009 and 2010, respectively:

We would like to invite you to attend the call for papers for a special issue of the journal Surveillance & Society (http://www.surveillance-and-society.org) that will have the same theme as the events in Curitiba (http://www2.pucpr.br/ssscla) and Toluca (http://bit.ly/c3Knxy), that is, “SURVEILLANCE IN LATIN AMERICA”.

This call will be open to everyone interested in surveillance in Latin America. However, papers submitted and presented in both events can be integrally re-submitted to S&S in bilingual versions (Portuguese+English OR Spanish+English). We suggest that they be revised and updated.

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOETHICS (IJT)

Official publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Otttawa, Canada

Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

Submisson deadline: September 15, 2010

Recommended topics:

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Technoethics and Cognition (artificial morality, ethical agents, technoethical systems, technoethical mind, techno-addiction and ethical intervention, etc.)
• Biotech Ethics (cloning ethics, e-health ethics, telemedicine ethics, medical, research ethics, genetic ethics, neuroethics, sport and nutrition technoethics, etc.)
• Technoethics and Society (digital property ethics, technoethics and social theory, technoethics and law, technoethics and science, technoethics and art, global technoethics, etc.)
• Computer and Engineering Ethics (professional codes of ethics, environmental technoethics, military technoethics, nanoethics, nuclear ethics, etc.)
• Information and Communication Technoethics (cyberethics, cyber pornography, cybercrime, cyber-stalking, internet ethics, media ethics, netiquette, etc.)
• Organizational Technoethics (e-business ethics, outsourcing ethics, virtual organization ethics, global ethics, technoethics and knowledge management, technoethics and work, etc.)
• Educational Technothics (cyber-bullying, cyber democracy, digital divide, e-learning ethics, emancipatory educational technology, professional technoethics, technoethical assessment and evaluation, etc.).

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A new book entitled “Surveillance and Democracy” edited by Kevin Haggerty and Minas Samatas, containing chapters by surveillance experts  David Lyon, Deborah Johnson ,Torin Monahan,  Michalis Lianos, Kirstie Ball, Lilian Mitrou, Minas Samatas, and others  is now available in paperback. More information about the book can be found at: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415472401/

Berlin based Dietmar Kammerer, cultural anthropologist, film critic and philosopher has compiled an extensive and annotated list of surveillance feature films (pdf).

It contains films from 1956’s “1984″ to the classic “Dr Mabuse” (1960), from the absurd “Brazil”(1985) to the mainstream “Sneakers” (1992), from De Palma’s “Blowout” (1981) to Antonioni’s “Blow-up” (1966) – films from early as 1927  – “Metropolis” – to the latest Hollywood hits.

For all researchers interested in the subject matter, this resource will hopefully be of much help. For all others an enjoyable reading.

Thanks to Dietmar for this list and the work that went into it.

The research by Mike McCahill and Rachel Finn on surveillance in schools, published in the lastested edition of Surveillance and Society, was reported in the the UKs Daily Telegraph newspaper on July 7th 2010.

The full article can be read here: The Social impact of Surveillance in Three UK Schools: Angels, Devils and Teen Mums

Volume 7  | Number 3/4
edited by Valerie Steeves and Owain Jones

featuring 9 great articles…

• Gary Marx and Valerie Steeves – ‘From the Beginning: Children as Subjects and Agents of Surveillance’
• Angie C Henderson, Sandra M Harmon and Jeffrey Houser – ‘A New State of Surveillance? An Application of Michel Foucault to Modern Motherhood’
• Anna Sparrman and Anne-Li Lindgren – ‘Visual documentation as a normalizing practice: a new discourse of visibility in preschool’
• Micheal Gallagher – ‘Are schools panoptic?’
• Mike McCahill and Rachel Finn – ‘The Social impact of Surveillance in Three UK Schools: Angels, Devils and Teen Mums’
• Ian McIntosh, Samantha Punch, Nika Dorrer and Ruth Emond – ‘”You don’t have to be watched to make your toast”: Surveillance and Food Practices within Residential Care’
• Lynne Wrennall – ‘Surveillance and Child Protection: De-mystifying the Trojan Horse’
• Craig Osmond – ‘Anti-social behaviour and its surveillant inter-assemblage’
• Tonya Rooney     - ‘Trusting Children: How do surveillance technologies alter a child’s experience of trust, risk and responsibility?’

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Surveillance & Society

Vol 7, No 2 (2010) Surveillance, Performance and New Media Art
edited by John McGrath and Bob Sweeny

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The GRANEM, University of Angers, is looking for a Research Assistant for its multilingual economics and management research laboratory based in Angers, Pays de la Loire, France.

This opportunity is for a research assistant on a 2 to 3 month contract, starting in June 2010 working on the European Commission Contract: Focus groups on European Citizens attitudes and behaviours concerning personal identity data management, under Dr Caroline Lancelot Miltgen.

The GRANEM, University of Angers, is looking for a Research Assistant for its multilingual economics and management research laboratory based in Angers, Pays de la Loire, France.  This opportunity is for a research assistant on a 2 to 3 month contract, starting in June 2010 working on the European Commission Contract: Focus groups on European Citizens attitudes and behaviours concerning personal identity data management, under Dr Caroline Lancelot Miltgen.

More information on the university’s website